(A) Every person, whose principal place of business is not within the city, who carries on or engages in any trade, calling, profession, avocation or occupation set forth in this section shall pay to the city the business license fee prescribed in this section. Such license shall be for one year, or the remaining portion thereof, commencing on the first day of the month in which the license is received.
(B) Any person engaging in any of the arts, trades, callings, avocations or occupations of the building trades who is the holder of a state contractor's license so to do, and whose principal place of business is within the city, shall carry a city business license in full force and effect at all times. The first license issued to any such person shall be prorated from the first day of the quarter in which applied for and shall expire on December 31 of that year. Thereafter such license shall be renewed on a calendar year basis.
(C) For classification and identification and work permitted under such license, the classification of the State Contractor's License Board shall be used for classification purposes only.
Classification | Fee |
Classification | Fee |
A General engineering contractors | $300 |
B1 General building contractors | 225 |
C4 Boilers, hot water heating, and steam fitting | 180 |
C6 Cabinet and mill work | 135 |
C8 Cement and concrete | 135 |
C45 Electrical signs | 135 |
C10 Electric (general) | 180 |
C11 Elevator installations | 135 |
C12 Excavating, grading, trenching, paving, and surfacing | 135 |
C-16 Fire protection and engineering | 135 |
C15 Floors (wood) | 135 |
C17 Glazing | 135 |
C21 House and building moving and wrecking | 135 |
C2 Insulation | 135 |
C27 Landscaping | 135 |
C26 Lathing | 135 |
C29 Masonry | 135 |
C23 Ornamental metals | 135 |
C33 Painting and decorating | 135 |
C34 Pipelines | 135 |
C35 Plastering | 180 |
C36 Plumbing | 180 |
C38 Refrigeration | 135 |
C39 Roofing | 135 |
42 Sewers, sewage disposal, and drain cement pipe laying | 135 |
C43 Sheet metal | 135 |
C50 Steel, reinforcing | 135 |
C51 Steel, structural | 135 |
C53 Swimming pools | 135 |
C54 Tile (ceramic and mosaic) | 135 |
C20 Warm-air heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning | 180 |
C60 Welding | 135 |
C57 Well drilling | 135 |
C61 Classification specialists | 135 |
G1 Gas filters | 180 |
S1 Sandblasting | 135 |
V1 Vocational licenses | 135 |
(D) State licensed contractors shall be required to obtain a city business license to perform work within the scope of their primary state contractors classifications, namely:
(1) “A” General Engineering Contractor;
(2) “B” General Building Contractor; and
(3) “C” Specialty Contractor; provided, however, specialty contractors holding currently valid subclassifications directly related by trade practices to their primary licenses shall not be required to obtain additional licenses to perform work in a closely related field. Contractors shall be required to obtain separate business licenses for each unrelated trade or occupation performed within the city; and provided, further, itinerant “C” Specialty Contractors (not having a principal place of business in the city) may prorate their license fees as follows: two-thirds of the annual license fee for the first six months and one-third thereof for the next six months of any 12-month period if the renewal fee is paid before the expiration of the first six months period.
('65 Code, § 3-1.305) (Ord. 810, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 860, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 197-C.S., passed - - ; Am. Ord. 356-C.S., passed - - )